The rest pales in comparison. Take it from an adrenaline junkie ADHD me. 
Facebook has it, Friendfeed has it, Twitter has it and withholds it via API limits and limited search/discovery capability.
Steven Hodson thinks real time sucks. On the other hand, Google is finally realizing that real time search is a major hole in their current offerings.
All of us are trying to figure out how to manage the information flow without going crazy, without duplicating what we post across sixteen different social networks, and pull some value out while putting community into the mix.
I had a question today from @Rumford about whether I would use Tweetphoto more if it was linked up to Flickr. I like Tweetphoto, but I don’t use it the same way I use Flickr, or Zooomr, or even Friendfeed’s photo upload feature. I tend to send pics from my iPhone to Tweetphoto, in real time, because it’s easy to snap the pic, and aim it at Tweetphoto while keeping my Flickr stream open for the pics I’ve done with the Nikon, pics that I might post here, pics that I really worked at. Crossposting pics from Twitter to tweetphoto to Flickr seems…redundant. And annoying to people who are friends on more than one of these networks.
There is a big difference between a mobile pic and one I post to Flickr: mobile is real time; Flickr is my archive of stuff I truly care about and want to share now, later and out into the future.
Both are valuable; both matter, but they are entirely different. We’re pretty good at managing the archive stream. Google helps, so do blogs and bookmarks and other tools. When it comes to the real time web, not so much.
The next step in this process is going to be the development of effective tools and filters to manage the real time beast. Then we’re going to begin to use the power of real-time interaction to solve problems, create new data points, and engage in community activities that will change our real world in unimagined ways.
Stay tuned, it’s getting interesting.
